Questions, Doubts, Lack of Accountability Undermine Coutts Fundraising.
Hello All. Just arrived home from covering the Grus Hearing in Ottawa to find many public comments and questions about the funds previously raised to benefit the four Coutts accused.
A great Canadian,… https://t.co/X3tpO8pr1A pic.twitter.com/6lEkyDuPmW
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) November 5, 2023
My former neighbor;)
One in three Canadians say they are living in a household that is experiencing financial hardship, a new Statistics Canada report has found.
Individuals aged 15 and older reported living in households that found it difficult or very difficult to pay for necessary expenses such as transportation, housing, food and clothing throughout the month of October.
A million years ago … pardon me, my notes indicate rather surprisingly that it was the spring of 2021. Two and a half years ago, the Supreme Court found in favour of the federal government in the case of the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA). It was a tricky division of powers question.
Since manmade climate change is a global collective action problem, laws to curtail greenhouse gas emissions aren’t inarguably in the natural bailiwick of either the federal government or the provinces. The federal Liberals made such a law, applying a “backstop” carbon price to — IN THEORY — the federation as a whole.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government this week took a baby step toward recognizing its immigration policy needs some fixing by halting future increases in the number of permanent newcomers the country intends to accept.
Still, Immigration Minister Marc Miller seemed to suggest that ”stabilizing” the number of new permanent residents at 500,000 constitutes a concession on his government’s part. Yet, under Mr. Miller’s plan, Canada is still on track to accept more new permanent residents next year (485,000) than it will absorb this year (465,000), or than it did last year (more than 437,000) before the number tops out at 500,000 in both 2025 and 2026.
The Liberal Party is beta-testing new videos attacking Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, one of which compares him to former U.S president Donald Trump.
The party confirms that a video it posted online earlier this week was its first to splice together footage of both Poilievre and Trump.
The Liberals’ video uses Polievre’s own recent viral apple-eating moment — when he got into a brusque exchange with a local journalist in B.C. — and attempts to show him taking a page out of Trump’s political playbook. The video shows Poilievre and Trump using similar language.
Liberal members of Parliament must choose what’s more important — loyalty to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or helping their constituents heat their homes.
Never expect Liberal MP’s to do the right thing.
In the comforting safety of my own home, I sat down with my wife for our morning coffee recently. As our children played happily across the room, the atmosphere between us was sombre; the weight of the events of the past few weeks was palpable. Our conversation, though whispered, seemed to resound through the centuries, echoing the fears and uncertainties of countless Jewish families before us.
Time to address the immigration number that matters now
Don’t look too closely at the immigration targets the federal government set Wednesday. They’re not the numbers that matter right now.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller kept the already-planned target of 500,000 in 2025, but said there’d be no increase in 2026. But that isn’t Canada’s immigration number.
The figure that matters more is the 2.2 million in temporary residents who are in Canada. That number has surged for reasons that have nothing to do with immigration planning. And the Liberal government should be screwing up their courage to do something about that, right away.
Many new immigrants to Canada say Canadians pay too much in taxes, according to in-house research for the Canada Revenue Agency.
When asked if they arrived with any preconceptions about the Canadian tax system, newcomers often mentioned it being an “expensive” part of living in Canada, according to the report, “Qualitative Research On First Time Tax Filing With Newcomers To Canada.”
Teacher in Ontario, Canada reads her class a poem which says “Israel should be banned” and included the genocidal slogan “from the river to the sea Palestine should be free” which means the eradication of Israel pic.twitter.com/eysYaYw3J6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 2, 2023
Despite attempts to rein in the rancor at Canada’s House of Commons, Canadians largely hold negative views around the current state of debate in Parliament.
A new Angus Reid survey, released on Thursday(opens in a new tab), asked nearly 1,900 Canadians to choose three words out of a list of 10 that they would use to describe parliamentary proceedings given what they have seen, read or heard.
The most common responses were “posturing” at 54 per cent, “useless” at 46 per cent and “dishonest” at 38 per cent.
OTTAWA — The president of CBC and Radio-Canada defended the public broadcaster and its independence at a House of Commons committee this morning.
Catherine Tait was called to testify at the heritage committee, where she faced questions from Conservative MPs about CBC’s reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
In recent months, there has been considerable attention given to the evidence that the standard of living of Canadians is falling. The benchmark reference for this trend is the decline in after-inflation income per person – that is, real GDP per capita. This worrying development reflects still-elevated inflation, weakening economic growth, and strong population gains fuelled by immigration.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has written to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith explaining why she thinks the idea of pulling the province out of the Canada Pension Plan is based on bad math.
In a letter sent to Smith on Wednesday, Freeland said that while the province has the right to pull out of the CPP and create its own pension plan, Albertans should first consider the negative consequences of such a move.
Freeland pointed out that the CPP has a long track record of providing a “strong and consistent level of return” on pension investments.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the “price of justice” for Israel’s pursuit of those responsible for the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel should not be paid by “all Palestinian civilians” in Gaza.
Trudeau said his government continues “to unequivocally condemn Hamas’s horrid terrorism, and Israel has the right to defend itself — but the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians.”
